Look, Pennsylvania employers. You should be all prepared for what I am about to tell you. It should come as no news to you because you have been posting this very same information on the walls of your work site break rooms, near your lunch rooms and in the hallways near your time clocks. This information is already on the latest Pennsylvania minimum wage posters, is what I am saying.
Your friendly Pennsylvania minimum wage is about to change. As of July 1, 2007, the Pennsylvania minimum wage will change from its current rate (where it has been since January 1, 2007) of $6.25 per hour to $7.15 per hour. Yes, all of this information should already be in a conspicuous place in your work site, each and every one of them. If not, I would highly suggest your Pennsylvania employers out there to purchase yourself a Pennsylvania minimum wage labor law poster as soon as possible.
What won’t change, it does not seem, with the change in the regular Pennsylvania minimum wage is the tipped employee minimum wage. As it stands now, the Pennsylvania minimum wage for tipped employees is at $2.83 per hour (with the definition of tipped employee being somebody who makes at least $30 per month tips). As far as I can tell from the Pennsylvania labor laws and from my sources on the topic, come July when the regular employee minimum wage changes, te tipped employee minimum wage will stay the same in the state.
Pennsylvania minimum wage law also accounts for smaller employers in the state and allows them to pay a lower rate. That rate is currently $5.65 per hour, but it too will increase to $6.65 per hour on July 1, and then $7.15 per hour come July 1, 2008. The cut off for “smaller” employers is having ten or less full time employees.
